Stephen Perse

Dr Stephen Perse, took his BA degree here and was later elected to a Fellowship. A great benefactor of his college, he is remembered at the College’s annual Perse Feast. The chapel contains Perse’s wall effigy of 1615 and there is a statue of him in Tree Court. In his will Dr Perse left £500 for the building of new accommodation for his College. 


I am starting to enjoy learning about the history of Cambridge!